Bossk

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Post: #73555
Topic: the lonne
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73555/action/topic#73555
Time: 25-Oct-2004 7:37 AM

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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
SO LET IT BE WRITTEN; SO SHALL IT BE DONE.

As Shimmy would type it...

my fcukni' arse.

And, yes, a roadtrip is in order. I'm drivin'. Good thing we tagged Shimmy when we were making the molds for the puzzles. Hunt him like the animal he is.

Post: #73551
Topic: Tribute to motti's drinking, partying, friends and persona
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73551/action/topic#73551
Time: 25-Oct-2004 7:32 AM

I see Motti as a Jack man. Maybe that's just my impression. But I just call it how I see it.

Post: #73550
Topic: NFL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73550/action/topic#73550
Time: 25-Oct-2004 7:31 AM

Seahawks started hot, but have been stumbling as of late. They started with a 3-0 record but have lost their last 3 games. Dammit! Hasselbeck is my fantasy football QB, too.

Post: #73199
Topic: Discussion: Your most prized star wars collectible
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73199/action/topic#73199
Time: 23-Oct-2004 3:30 PM

I sold off most of my newer figures. Just held on to my originals of which I have all but five for the collection.

Post: #73196
Topic: Forget the plot, we want action!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73196/action/topic#73196
Time: 23-Oct-2004 3:24 PM

I would have to agree with oojason and chaltab on this one. Very few fights compare to Hoth.

Post: #73034
Topic: My Generation Rocks!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73034/action/topic#73034
Time: 22-Oct-2004 9:58 AM

I would be afraid of how heated those threads might get. I'll stay away. A bunch of my old high school friends and I started some pretty heavy political debating a few months back and we're still trying to completely mend it all up afterwards. Debating outside a heavily moderated, politically oriented forum is not a good idea. I don't think Jay has the time nor will power to break that up.

Post: #73033
Topic: Lazy, lazy Lucas.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73033/action/topic#73033
Time: 22-Oct-2004 9:51 AM

Justin's right about the BTTF line.

Follow that up the next day with...

"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain."

Post: #73015
Topic: Deals to take advantage of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73015/action/topic#73015
Time: 22-Oct-2004 7:03 AM

Gundark, just sent it out 10 minutes ago. Ideally you will have it by the end of next week. No guarantee though knowing the USPS.

Post: #73014
Topic: Harry Potter (no spoilers!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73014/action/topic#73014
Time: 22-Oct-2004 7:02 AM

Sweet. I'm all over that one.

Post: #73001
Topic: Deals to take advantage of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73001/action/topic#73001
Time: 22-Oct-2004 4:39 AM

Sweet Gundark! Thanks.

JM and Windexed, I agree that I much prefer Amazon Marketplace. I buy from them all the time. I like that it's all protected by Amazon and they can suspend payment if the shipment doesn't arrive and whatnot. It's a beautiful thing. The only thing that makes it lack is that the only stuff you can sell in the marketplace is stuff that Amazon sells in its e-retail center. No rarities or special or discontinued items. So, for that stuff, you have to go hunting in eBay or elsewhere.

I haven't purchased anything from eBay since about 1998-99 when I was going on an Atari binge. I bought a used 2600 system and a bunch of games. I was hooked on eBay and uBid (I think that's what it was called). But everything was money order. Maybe if there is something I just can't live without, I will start to look on eBay.

Post: #72999
Topic: Harry Potter (no spoilers!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72999/action/topic#72999
Time: 22-Oct-2004 4:35 AM

It is true that it is a far cry from the first two. My feeling is that the first two were far too cartoony and "feel good" to be a true wizard story. I always imagined HP to be a darker story as I read the books. I was disappointed by Chris Columbus' treatment of the story in terms of mood and appearance. The casting was spectacular, but otherwise. Cuaron captured what I had been imagining all along. Same goes for my wife. She loved the third one.

Speaking of the third one, when's it come out on DVD?

Post: #72998
Topic: the lonne
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72998/action/topic#72998
Time: 22-Oct-2004 4:29 AM

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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
It's the Loonie; it's lonnie in Shimraaese. the 2 dollar coin is known as the toonie (or more correctly, the twonie). Never mind the fact that the deuce has a polar bear on it.

No, no, no. It's LONNE. There's no "I" in it according to him.

Shame about the Toonie. I was hoping it had Bugs Bunny on it.

Post: #72997
Topic: BaseBall talk
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72997/action/topic#72997
Time: 22-Oct-2004 4:25 AM

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Originally posted by: Warbler
how can someone from Chicago cheer for the Evil Empire?

I live in Chicago. I'm not from Chicago. I was born in New York and became a Yankee's fan while living in Connecticut. In Connecticut, you have a choice of rooting for the Mets, Red Sox, and Yankees. Yanks were the biggest underdog at the time of the three teams (1985) and I really dug on a certain firstbaseman named Don Mattingly. Still think the guy was one of the greats of the 80s and early 90s. Carried that love of the Yankees with me out here to Chicagoland. As years went on and the Yanks got better and better, everybody became a fan. It became a bit too much when I was being accused of being a bandwagoneer despite being a fan since '85 (it takes quite a bit of time to explain it to them, then there's always the question of whether they'll believe you... I gave up). But I attribute most of my disgust towards the Yanks when they started pillaging the majors for their team instead of their own farm system and also to the time when I saw my first pink Yankees hat. That was just too much.

Post: #72892
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72892/action/topic#72892
Time: 21-Oct-2004 6:34 PM

Yeah, sounds pretty failsafe.

Post: #72889
Topic: Jokes thread : Reloaded
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72889/action/topic#72889
Time: 21-Oct-2004 6:28 PM

That movie is one of my guiltiest pleasures. Anytime it's on, I just can't say no.

"mess with the 'fro, you got to go."

Post: #72855
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72855/action/topic#72855
Time: 21-Oct-2004 4:00 PM

And that "humane way" would be?

Post: #72849
Topic: Jokes thread : Reloaded
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72849/action/topic#72849
Time: 21-Oct-2004 3:52 PM

Reg, great pics, no red x's! I'm stealing the Stormtrooper toilet pic for my website. Hope that's cool. Not that it's originally yours, but, insofar as this site goes, it's your's.

Luke and Gundark, do you Canadians really have a penchant for Mayonnaise?

Post: #72897
Topic: Deals to take advantage of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72897/action/topic#72897
Time: 21-Oct-2004 12:45 PM

Hmmm... might have to recheck it out if Gundark can't find it. Thanks again. I had given up hope on eBay because I thought it was about 95% Paypal oriented. You've restored my faith in it, JM.

Post: #72896
Topic: the lonne
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72896/action/topic#72896
Time: 21-Oct-2004 12:43 PM

And here's another reference to it as the Loonie... Discount Currency Exchange.

When I google "lonnie", I don't get currency sites. Even when I google "Canadian Lonnie" I don't. I got one that had that spelling in it, but when I clicked on the link, I got the spelling in the above link.

So, I'm not sure which to believe right now... the World Wide Web or somebody who lives there. Help? If you are right, Shimraa, I apologize. But the preponderance of truth, so far as I can tell, is on my side.

Post: #72895
Topic: the lonne
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72895/action/topic#72895
Time: 21-Oct-2004 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by: Shimraa
omg lol bossk, the loon is the name of the bird on the coin not the name of the coin. the coin is called a lonnie just like 2$ is a tonnie.

The coin is called a "loon" because it had the bird on it, you DoDo (yes, another bird reference).

In the immortal words of Tommy Lee Jones... "care to revise your bullshit statement?"

The Canadian Common Loon

Post: #72894
Topic: Bush and Nuclear Proliferation
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72894/action/topic#72894
Time: 21-Oct-2004 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
*ahem* Living in Tennessee, I've heared it pronounced both ways all my life, so neither bothers me. It is actually mostly people over forty years old that pronounce like Bush, though.

Go Figure.

I heard it when I was living in Kentucky so I'm used to hearing it. Doesn't mean I like it. Bugs me to no end. But there are so many instances of words that are chronically mispronounced, so I guess I should be used to it.

I wonder why it's mostly older people that pronounce it that way? Now that I think about it, I would have to agree with Chaltab on that observation.

Post: #72891
Topic: The Next Superman
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72891/action/topic#72891
Time: 21-Oct-2004 12:33 PM

Not that Rebecca Romijn (do the girl a favor and lose the Stamos; she's on the verge of doing that herself) is anything to scoff at. I dig her. Even in blue scales, I dig her. But there wasn't a single outfit worn by Garner in that movie in which she did not just look deadly sexy.

And, yes Chaltab, my wife knows I like Garner intensely. My wife has a thing for Garner's ex-husband (Scott Foley). You should have heard the jokes we were throwing back and forth the day they announced their separation.

Post: #72890
Topic: Deals to take advantage of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72890/action/topic#72890
Time: 21-Oct-2004 12:30 PM

I can't concentrate on work.
My libido's gone berzerk.
Now I'm sweating through my shirt.

Yeah, sure, why not?

Post: #72795
Topic: Jokes thread : Reloaded
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72795/action/topic#72795
Time: 21-Oct-2004 10:25 AM

First, I only post this because I have a few friends on this board who are Canadian and I know they will likely find this hilarious. I am not anti-Canadian at all. In fact, just the opposite. But I found these hilarious all the same.

Ah, a budding young reporter for the New York Times...

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20041017/lnq041018.gif

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I believe the children are our future...

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20041019/lnq041020.gif

Post: #72854
Topic: Harry Potter (no spoilers!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72854/action/topic#72854
Time: 21-Oct-2004 9:59 AM

Motti, if you are looking for faithful adaptation, you'll likely be disappointed. However, I have given up on faithfulness in adaptation (save for the spectacular job done in Mystic River), so that made me enjoy Azkaban like no other. Cuaron did a fantastic job and I wish he was coming back.

When's it come out in Denmark?